During the Soviet anti-religious persecution taking place under the cover of the Russian famine of 1921, McCullagh served as a correspondent for the New York Herald. Along with those of Fr. Edmund A. Walsh, McCullagh's detailed reports about the 1923 Moscow show trial prosecution by Nikolai Krylenko of Archbishop Jan Cieplak, Exarch Leonid Feodorov, Monsignor Konstanty Budkiewicz, and other Catholic clergy and laity reached a worldwide audience, much to the shock of the Soviet State. McCullagh's detailed account of his visit and of the Cieplak show trial were published in the 1924 volume The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity, which was immediately translated into French, German and Spanish. 

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